Bratoft / Braytoft / Breietoft / Bretoft
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view of font and cover - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, Ss. Peter & Paul church, Bratoft. C15 octagonal font with symbols of the Passion, with grotesque heads on underside of bowl."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3798916] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of font and cover - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Peter & St.Paul's font. Octagonal Perpendicular 15th century font with symbols of the passion on the bowl".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290260] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - flagellation post, scourge - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: seen here on the right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290270] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Scene Description: three panels visible here: grotesque head, leaf motif, grotesque head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290270] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 2
Scene Description: there are at least two such pairs on this basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290270] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - cross - Tau cross - in a quatrefoil
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290260] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns - in a quatrefoil
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290260] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: a large leaf seen here to the left of the grotesque head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290260] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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human figure - head - grotesque or fantastic
Scene Description: on several of the panels of the underbowl chamfer; this one is on the northeast panel -- notice the damage to the lower part
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3798924] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/118998] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, Ss Peter & Paul church, Bratoft. Showing the 19th C. screen which incorporates parts of a 15th C. one."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3798907] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of font and cover in context - north side
Scene Description: Source camtion: "An open south door illuminates the interior of St.Peter & St.Paul's church at Bratoft".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290270] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21836BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Summergates Ln, Bratoft, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE24, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A158, 8-10 km W of Skegness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Candleshoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one(s) from the Domesday-time churches in it / them)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Bratoft [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4765/bratoft/] [accessed 8 October 2018] one of which reports three churches in it. Edmund Oldfield's Topographical and historical account of Wainfleet [...] (London, 1829: 124) entry for Bratoft reports an ancient font "adorned with scutcheons, which are emblazoned with various devices" here. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer (1870-1872) reports "an ancient font" in the entry for Bratoft as well. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4746065020] notes: "Parish church. Early C14, early C15, 1747, restored and chancel rebuilt 1844 and restored 1890 [...] C15 octagonal font with symbols of the Passion, and foliate and grotesque heads on underside of bowl." The octagonal basin has several (4? / 6?) of the panels decorated with shields charged with Instruments of the Passion emblems, the shields themselves framed in uneven cusped quatrefoils; the rest of the panels have pairs of trefoiled windows; the underbowl chamfer has grotesque heads alternating with foliated motifs; the octagonal stem is plain except for mouldings at the ends, and the octagonal lower base has graded mouldings on it. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and a ring handle; appears Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the Domesday-time church(es) here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 313084 5893966
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.1622, 0.204
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 9′ 43.92″ N, 0° 12′ 14.4″ E